Animals
- 4 Jun 2015
- 9781782112136
- £9.99
- 256 pp
- 129×198mm
- 1 May 2014
- 9781782112143
- £7.99
- 256 pp
In a few words
Sometimes friendship is the only true love story . . . Now a major new film starring Holliday Grainger
In a few words
The critically acclaimed, raucous celebration of female friendship . . . Now a major new film
I wish I had written this book . . . Withnail with girls
Caitlin Moran
Savagely funny, clever and wise. If it's not an instant cult classic I'm leaving the cult
Nathan Filer
An utterly triumphant ode to female friendship
Animals beautifully navigates the complexities of intimate relationships. Never cloying or mawkish, it communicates vulnerability, dependence and tenderness, often in a single dazzling line . . . Like a riotous, careening night out, full of bellowing laughter and absurd details, this is a book you’ll be talking about for years to come. It marks Unsworth as a tremendous talent
Kerry Hudson
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‘There’s no ceremony for friendship, is there?‘
‘Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.’
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler’s nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growing apart?
More about
the book
NOW A MAJOR NEW FILM
RECOMMENDED ON THE HIGH LOW PODCAST
‘There’s no ceremony for friendship, is there?‘
‘Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.’
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler’s nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growing apart?
Hilarious, moving and poetic
Animals is a riot. A kind of drunker, swearier Girls. I loved it
Matt Haig
[A] wham-bam, helter-skelter account of female friendship, featuring two women in their early thirties whose voracious appetite for wine makes Dionysus look like a lightweight
A hilarious, madcap meditation on grown ups who are not quite ready to grow up. Her writing is as brilliantly inventive as her characters' transgressions
Helen Walsh
What makes this novel so fresh are the unexpected turns the story takes
and the vividness, urgency and idiosyncratic panache of Unsworth’s writing
Animals is a riot. A kind of drunker, swearier Girls. I loved it
Matt Haig
Hilarious, moving and poetic
A gloriously over-the-top account of female friendship
Emma Jane Unsworth
View profileEmma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything. Her short story ‘I Arrive First’ was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012. In 2019, the film adaptation of Animals, starring Holliday Grainger, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She lives in Manchester.
Emma Jane Unsworth
View profileEmma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything. Her short story ‘I Arrive First’ was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012. In 2019, the film adaptation of Animals, directed by Sophie Hyde and starring Holliday Grainger, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
